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The zoning restrictions are one of the most startling things to be about the US. Especially since the US is in general very pro market but in this case is incre
by ajmurmann 10y ago
The zoning restrictions are one of the most startling things to be about the US. Especially since the US is in general very pro market but in this case is incredibly anti market.
The major my suburb recently sent out a survey asking people what kind of building projects people would like to see. The granularity of what was being asked for was shocking. It should not be the government's task to decide if we need to build single family homes or multi family homes and if they are allowed to be town houses etc. I felt like I was in the Soviet Union.
- mschuster91 10y agoI don't see zoning as black-and-white as you do. We have pretty strict zoning requirements in most of Germany too... with some exceptions of course, and you can immediately see that the quality of life in lesser regulated areas goes downhill. The point is that you have to apply common sense to zoning, which given the countless comments about US zoning seems to be the difference.
- mjevans 10y agoI would like to see more of this in the US. Common sense (zoning, and other things): Japanese Zoning :: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8540845 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8540845 http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html